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...story could be about Harvard and the Arsenal on the Charles, the $163 million Watertown office park that the University purchased last spring to the city’s great dismay. Alternatively, however, it could be about the Catholic Church and the nature of lordship in 13th-century England...
...recent purchase has brought criticism that rivals the condemnations streaming forth from Watertown. The Arsenal, a former military base that once required $100 million in toxic waste clean-up before it could be converted into offices, was viewed as the fiscal savior of the mostly residential suburb. The millions of dollars in taxable property it represented were already being considered for school improvements, library renovations and road repairs. But under an 1830 Massachusetts law creating special privileges for non-profits, Harvard, as the new owner, is not required to pay any taxes on the property...
...Magna Carta.) Also, the University still plans to establish a payment-in-lieu-of-taxes (PILOT) agreement with the city to compensate it for some of the loss. But as long as Harvard doesn’t pay the full rate on its property, the resulting shortfall could leave Watertown in the lurch...
...What they have done in the past is that they carve up the district of an exiting incumbent,” said Watertown Representative Rachel Kaprielian...
...plan cuts Cambridge’s delegation in half, to just one full-time representative, and puts large chunks of the city into districts currently served by incumbents from Belmont, Boston, Arlington and Watertown...